HUMAN BIOLOGY CORE SCHEDULE
Autumn Quarter 2007-2008
Reading Assignments
A-side
B-side
* = Article available in Course Reader
+ = Article available on CourseWork
Darwin = textbook, Origin of Species
Durham = textbook, Coevolution
SHOPH = textbook, Life (8th edition)
DATE
Monday
9/24
A+B | B
Tuesday
9/25
A+B | B
* = Article available in Course Reader
+ = Article available on CourseWork
Klein = textbook, The Dawn of Human Culture
9:00 am
Introduction to Human Biology
Dr. Carol Boggs
R: None
10:00 am
WEEK 1
Ethnographic Issues I
Sexuality in Early 20th-Century Samoa
Dr. Melissa Brown
R: *Mead – excerpts from Coming of Age in
Samoa; *Freeman – excerpt from Margaret
Mead and Samoa
HW: Virtual Lab 1 released @ Noon
MODULE I
THE LACTOSE CASE
Lactose I: The evolution of adult lactose
The Concept of Culture
Brown
absorption
R: *Brown ECS Ch. 1AND Ch. 3; *Geertz –
“Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive
Theory of Culture”
Chemistry:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/humbio/chem/Hydrolys DUE: Virtual Lab 1 @ 9am
isCondensation.html
HW: Virtual Lab 2 released @ Noon
Dr. William Durham
R: Durham pp. 228-240
Wednesday Lactose II: Genetics of adult lactose
9/26
absorption
A+B | B Durham
The Concept of Society
Brown
R: *Brown ECS Ch. 7 AND Ch. 8
R: Durham pp. 240-254
Thursday Lactose III: The Calcium absorption
9/27
hypothesis
A+B |A+ B Durham
R: Durham pp. 254-268
Lactose IV: Evolution and the dual
inheritance model
Durham
R: Durham pp. 268-285; Darwin pp.1-6, 44-52
DUE: Virtual Lab 2 @ 3pm
HW: Virtual Lab 3 released @ Noon
WEEK 2
Evolution II
Monday
10/1
A|A
Evolution I
Descent with Modification
Durham
R: Darwin pp. 60-71
Natural Selection & Adaptation
Durham
R: Darwin pp. 80-91, 111-122, 126-130
Tuesday
10/2
A|B
Evolution III
Social Theory I
Sexual Selection & Exaptation
Durham
R: Darwin pp. 171-206
Why do we need theory?
Brown
R: *Trigg Ch. 1; *Brown ECS Intro
DUE: Virtual Lab 3 @ 3pm
Wednesday Evolution IV
Social Selection vs. Sexual Selection
10/3
Dr. Joan Roughgarden
A|B
Thursday
10/4
A|B
Ethnographic Issues II
R: *Roughgarden – “Challenging Darwin’s
theory of sexual selection”
Chinese Kinship and Women’s Labor
Brown
R: *Gates – “Cultural Support for Birth
Limitation Among Urban Capital-Owning
Women” AND “Footloose in Fujian: Economic
Correlates of Footbinding”
Evolution V
Social Theory II
Speciation I
Durham
R: SHOPH Ch. 23
Marx & Alienation
Brown
R: *Dobb – “Marxism and the Social Sciences;”
*Marx – “Preface to A Critique of Political
Economy”
WEEK 3
Social Theory III
Monday
10/8
A|B
Evolution VI
Speciation II
Durham
R: SHOPH Ch. 23 (deliberate repeat)
Durkheim & Anomie
Brown
R: *Durkheim excerpts – “Elementary Forms of
the Religious Life” AND “Anomie and industry”
HW: Virtual Lab 4 released @ Noon
Tuesday
10/9
A|B
Evolution VII
Ethnographic Issues III
Phylogeny & Systematics
Durham
R: SHOPH Ch. 25
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
Brown
R: *Sahlins – excerpt from Islands of History;
*Kuper – “Marshall Sahlins: History as Culture”
Wednesday Classical Genetics I
Mitosis
10/10
Boggs
A|B
Thursday
10/11
A|B
Social Theory IV
R: SHOPH pp. 178-192
Weber & Verstehen
Brown
R: *Runciman – “Introduction”; *Trigg – “The
Goal of Social Science”; *Weber – “Types of
Social Action”
Classical Genetics II
Social Theory V
Meiosis
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 193-203
Freud & Repression
Brown
R: *Freud excerpts from Civilization and Its
Discontents AND Totem and Taboo ; *Wolf
“Introduction”
DUE: Virtual Lab 4 , SUNDAY 10/14 @ Noon
WEEK 4
Social Theory VI
Monday
10/15
A|B
Classical Genetics III
Mendel’s Laws
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 206-219
The Social, the Biological and the Cultural
Brown
R: *Chagnon – excerpt from Yanomamo,
*Tierney – “The Fierce Anthropologist,” *Mann
– “Scientific Community” AND “Replies to
Mann;” *Brown ECS epilogue
Tuesday
10/16
A|A
Classical Genetics IV
Population Genetics I
Recombination
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 219-229
Sickle Cell case study
Durham
R: Durham pp. 103-119
Wednesday Population Genetics II
The Hardy-Weinberg Law
10/17
Durham
A|B
Language I
Language evolution
Dr. Meritt Ruhlen
R: *Ruhlen – “New Perspectives on the Origins
of Languages”
R: Durham pp. 532-534 + handouts
Thursday
10/18
A|B
Population Genetics III
Language II
Directional Selection
Durham
R: Durham pp. 120-123, 534-536
Language and Innateness
Dr. Eve Clark
R: TBA
HW: Virtual Lab 5 released @ Noon
DUE: Virtual Lab 5, SUNDAY 10/21 @ Noon
WEEK 5
MODULE II
RACE & ETHNICITY
Race & Ethnicity I
Monday
10/22
A | A+B
Population Genetics IV
Heterozygote Advantage
Durham
R: Durham pp. 123-137
The Social Basis of Race and Ethnicity
Brown
R: *Appiah – “The Multiculturalist
Misunderstanding”; Review ECS Ch. 8 (from
9/26)
Tuesday
10/23
A | A+B
Population Genetics V
Race & Ethnicity II
Balanced Polymorphism
Durham
R: Durham pp. 137-153
The Politics of Race
Brown
R: *Shanklin – excerpts from Anthropology and
Race; +Nisbett – “Heredity, Environment, and
Race Differences in IQ”
Wednesday Race & Ethnicity III
Genetics, Race, and Ethnicity
10/24
A+B | A+B Dr. Marc Feldman
Thursday
10/25
A+B | B
Monday
10/29
Tuesday
10/30
A|B
Race & Ethnicity IV
R: +Feldman & Lewontin – “Race, Ancestry and
Medicine”
What Does Race Mean in the Context of Health?
Dr. Donald Barr
R: +Goodman – “When Genes Don’t Count (for
Racial Differences in Health)”
Race & Ethnicity V
Human Evolution I
Discussion
An Overview of Human Evolution
Dr. Richard Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 1
R: none
Molecular Genetics I
WEEK 6
B-SIDE MIDTERM EXAMINATION
9:00-10:50 AM
Human Evolution II
DNA, discovery, structure, and replication
Dr. Uta Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 11-11.3
People as Primates
Klein
R: +Klein – “Primate Evolution”
Chemistry: TBA
Wednesday Molecular Genetics II
DNA to protein: transcription and translation
10/31
Francke
A|B
Thursday
11/1
A|B
Human Evolution III
R: SHOPH Ch. 12-12.5
Human Origins in Africa
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 2
Molecular Genetics III
Human Evolution IV
DNA repair, sequencing and mutations
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 11.4, 11.5, Ch. 12.6
Australopithecines: Bipedal Apes
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 3
Monday
11/5
Tuesday
11/6
A|B
WEEK 7
A-SIDE MIDTERM EXAMINATION
9:00-10:50 AM
Molecular Genetics IV
Human Evolution V
Genetics of viruses and prokaryotes
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 13
Homo Ergaster: The First True Humans
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 4
Wednesday Molecular Genetics V
Expression of the eukaryotic genome
11/7
Francke
A|B
Thursday
11/8
A|B
Human Evolution VI
R: SHOPH Ch. 14-14.4
Stages vs. Branches in Human Evolution
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 5
Molecular Genetics VI
Human Evolution VII
Post-transcriptional regulation, non-coding RNA
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 14.5, 14.6 and *Chen &
Rajewsky review article
How Did Early People Make a Living?
Klein
R: *Klein – “Reconstructing how early people
exploited animals: problems and prospects”
WEEK 8
Human Evolution VIII
Monday
11/12
A|B
Molecular Genetics VII
Recombinant DNA and biotechnology
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 16
Life & Times of the Neanderthals
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 6; *Klein – "Whither
the Neanderthals?"
Tuesday
11/13
A|B
Molecular Genetics VIII
Human Evolution IX
Molecular mechanisms of genetic diseases
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch. 17 through 17.4 and *Ropers
review article
Origins of Modern Humans: Social Change or
Behavioral Change?
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 7
Wednesday Molecular Genetics IX
Genetic screening, pharmacogenetics, treatment
11/14
of genetic disorders
A|B
Francke
R: SHOPH Ch 17.5, 17.6 , *Roe review article,
and *Goldstein review article
Thursday
11/15
A|B
Human Evolution X
Life & Times of the Cro Magnons
Klein
R: Klein with Edgar Ch. 8
Ecology I
Human Evolution XI
Biodiversity: The Result of Evolution
Dr. Carol Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1200; 1229-1234;
skim pp. 1112-1137
Ancient DNA
Ann Horsburgh
R: *Lindahl – “Facts and Artifacts of Ancient
DNA”
Monday No class
11/19
Tuesday No class
11/20
Wednesday No class
11/21
Thursday
11/22
WEEK 9
No class
No class
No class
THANKSGIVING
WEEK 10
Modern Hunter-Gatherers I
Monday
11/26
A|B
Ecology II
Population Growth
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1166-1172; *Gotelli pp. 2-14, 20
Dr. Doug Bird
R: TBA
Tuesday
11/27
A|B
Ecology III
Modern Hunter-Gatherers II
Population Growth & Problems of Small
Populations
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1173-1181; *Gotelli pp. 26-32,
35-37, 41-45
Bird
R: +Hawkes – “Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An
Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods”
Wednesday Ecology IV
Two-Species Interactions: Competition
11/28
Boggs
A|B
Human Prehistory I
R: SHOPH p. 1192-1194; *Gotelli pp. 100-104
Origins of Agriculture
Dr. James Truncer
R: *Smith – “The Emergence of Agriculture”
Thursday
11/29
A|B
Ecology V
Human Prehistory II
Two-Species Interactions: Predation
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1184-1191; 1195-1196; *Gotelli
pp. 45-47
Emergence of Complex Societies I
Truncer
R: *Scarre & Fagan – “Theories of States” (pp.
23-58)
Monday
12/3
A|B
Ecology VI
Tuesday
12/4
A | A+B
WEEK 11
Human Prehistory III
Two-Species Interactions: Parasites & Epidemics
Boggs
R: +Morens – “The challenge of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases;”
+Smith – “Ecological theory to enhance
infectious disease control and public health
policy”
Ecology VII
Emergence of Complex Societies II
Truncer
R: *Scarre & Fagan – “South Asia: Harappan and
Later Civilizations” (pp. 148-166); *McKillop –
“Introduction” (pp. 3-25) AND “Origins, Growth,
and Decline of the Maya Civilization” (pp. 71113)
MODULE III
POPULATION
Population I
Behavioral Ecology
Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1147-1156
Wednesday Ecology VIII
Ecosystem Function
12/5
A | A+B Boggs
R: SHOPH pp. 1204-1223
Chemistry:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/humbio/chem/pH.html
Thursday Population III
Population & Environment: The Human Future
12/6
A+B | A+B Boggs
R: +Cohen – “Human Population: The Next Half
Century”
Social Causes & Consequences of Human
Population Growth
Durham
R: +Durham - Scarcity and Survival Ch.2, skim
Ch. 1
Population II
Government Intervention and Population Change
in China
Dr. Arthur Wolf
R: *Wolf – “The preeminent role of government
intervention in China’s family revolution”
Population IV
Discussion
All
R: none
Wednesday
12/12
Thursday
12/13
WEEK 12
A-SIDE FINAL EXAMINATION
8:30-11:30AM
B-SIDE FINAL EXAMINATION
8:30-11:30AM